Common use of Denominator Clause in Contracts

Denominator. The denominator is obtained by summing all children aged 4 or 5 years who reside in areas with a SEIFA IRSD quintile of 1 (based on Statistical Area 1, SA1) and who have a ‘Yes’ response against the child level data element ‘Early childhood education program enrolment indicator’ (representing enrolment in the year before full-time schooling), and who are enrolled in a program(s) for a total of 600 hours or more per year. Notes and Exceptions Disadvantage is measured using the ABS Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) derived from the 2016 ABS Census of Population and Housing. IRSD is a general socio-economic index that summarises a range of information about the economic and social resources of people and households within an area. Census variables that comprise this index include low income, no qualifications, low educational attainment, unemployment, overcrowded housing, disability, dwellings without motor vehicles, and Indigenous status. See the ABS website for more information (Census of Population and Housing: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), Australia, 2016, ABS cat. no. 2033.0.55.001). The use of SEIFA IRSD to measure disadvantage for this performance indicator may be reviewed pending national agreement on a definition of vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Identifiers Person ID (SLK 581): The SLK will provide a unique identifier for the vast majority of children. For the small percentage that may have the same SLK, legitimate duplicates can be identified by jurisdictions by using a child/student database to check the name, date of birth, sex and address details of each child with an identical SLK. Matching SLKs should be identified appropriately. See Appendix A: ‘Creating unique child records from episode records’. Identifier data elements Child/Person URL data elements: Statistical linkage key 581 (METeOR Id 349895) Data source(s) Numerator: NECECC Denominator: NECECC Frequency of data source collection Numerator: Annual Denominator: Annual

Denominator. The denominator is obtained by summing all children aged 4 or 5 years who reside in areas with a SEIFA IRSD quintile of 1 (based on Statistical Area 1, SA1) and who have a ‘Yes’ response against the child level data element ‘Early childhood education program enrolment indicator’ (representing enrolment in the year before full-time schooling), and who are enrolled in a program(s) for a total of 600 hours or more per year. Notes and Exceptions Disadvantage is measured using the ABS Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) derived from the 2016 ABS Census of Population and Housing. IRSD is a general socio-economic index that summarises a range of information about the economic and social resources of people and households within an area. Census variables that comprise this index include low income, no qualifications, low educational attainment, unemployment, overcrowded housing, disability, dwellings without motor vehicles, and Indigenous status. See the ABS website for more information (Census of Population and Housing: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), Australia, 2016, ABS cat. no. 2033.0.55.001). The use of SEIFA IRSD to measure disadvantage for this performance indicator may be reviewed pending national agreement on a definition of vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Identifiers Person ID (SLK 581): The SLK will provide a unique identifier for the vast majority of children. For the small percentage that may have the same SLK, legitimate duplicates can be identified by jurisdictions by using a child/student database to check the name, date of birth, sex and address details of each child with an identical SLK. Matching SLKs should be identified appropriately. See Appendix A: ‘Creating unique child records from episode records’. Identifier data elements Child/Person URL data elements: Statistical linkage key 581 (METeOR Id 349895) Data source(s) Numerator: NECECC Denominator: NECECC Frequency of data source collection Numerator: Annual Denominator: AnnualAnnual Performance Indicator 4 Proportion of enrolled children who attend, in the year before full-time school, quality early childhood education program(s) for 600 hours per year

Denominator. The denominator is obtained by summing all children aged 4 or 5 years who reside in areas with a SEIFA IRSD quintile of 1 (based on Statistical Area 1, SA1) and who have a ‘Yes’ response against the child level data element ‘Early childhood education program enrolment indicator’ (representing enrolment in the year before full-time schooling), and who are enrolled in a program(s) for a total of 600 hours or more per year. Notes and Exceptions Disadvantage is measured using the ABS Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) derived from the 2016 2011 ABS Census of Population and Housing. IRSD is a general socio-economic index that summarises a range of information about the economic and social resources of people and households within an area. Census variables that comprise this index include low income, no qualifications, low educational attainment, unemployment, overcrowded housing, disability, dwellings without motor vehicles, and Indigenous status. See the ABS website for more information (Census of Population and Housing: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), Australia, 20162011, ABS cat. no. 2033.0.55.001). The use of SEIFA IRSD to measure disadvantage for this performance indicator may be reviewed pending national agreement on a definition of vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Identifiers Person ID (SLK 581): The SLK will provide a unique identifier for the vast majority of children. For the small percentage that may have the same SLK, legitimate duplicates can be identified by jurisdictions by using a child/student database to check the name, date of birth, sex and address details of each child with an identical SLK. Matching SLKs should be identified appropriately. See Appendix A: ‘Creating unique child records from episode records’. Identifier data elements Child/Person URL data elements: Statistical linkage key 581 (METeOR Id 349895) Data source(s) Numerator: NECECC Denominator: NECECC Frequency of data source collection Numerator: Annual Denominator: AnnualAnnual Performance Indicator 4 Proportion of enrolled children who attend, in the year before full-time school, quality early childhood education program(s) for 600 hours per year

Denominator. The denominator is obtained by summing all children aged 4 or 5 years who reside in areas with a SEIFA IRSD quintile of 1 (based on Statistical Area 1, SA1) and who have a ‘Yes’ response against the child level data element ‘Early childhood education program enrolment indicator’ (representing enrolment in the year before full-time schooling), and who are enrolled in a program(s) for a total of 600 hours or more per year. Notes and Exceptions Disadvantage is measured using the ABS Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) derived from the 2016 2011 ABS Census of Population and Housing. IRSD is a general socio-economic index that summarises a range of information about the economic and social resources of people and households within an area. Census variables that comprise this index include low income, no qualifications, low educational attainment, unemployment, overcrowded housing, disability, dwellings without motor vehicles, and Indigenous status. See the ABS website for more information (Census of Population and Housing: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), Australia, 20162011, ABS cat. no. 2033.0.55.001). The use of SEIFA IRSD to measure disadvantage for this performance indicator may be reviewed pending national agreement on a definition of vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Identifiers Person ID (SLK 581): The SLK will provide a unique identifier for the vast majority of children. For the small percentage that may have the same SLK, legitimate duplicates can be identified by jurisdictions by using a child/student database to check the name, date of birth, sex and address details of each child with an identical SLK. Matching SLKs should be identified appropriately. See Appendix A: ‘Creating unique child records from episode records’. Identifier data elements Child/Person URL data elements: Statistical linkage key 581 (METeOR Id 349895) Data source(s) Numerator: NECECC Denominator: NECECC Frequency of data source collection Numerator: Annual Denominator: AnnualAnnual Appendix A: Creating unique child records from episode records The National Early Childhood Education and Care Collection (NECECC) utilises and combines different data sources or ‘files’ in order to process the data. The following discussion outlines the various stages used previously for matching and linking. This description has been updated since the original National Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education performance indicator specifications and reflects the methodological development of the NECECC. It is envisaged that similar methods will be used for the 2018 NECECC in order to report on the National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education—2018 performance indicators. The following discussion provides information on the methodological procedures used previously in relation to how child data were reconciled into the ‘Children’ population.